Christianity has basic tenets. Foremost that there is good
and evil. Evil was allowed by God as a test for goodness that the Bible calls
“righteousness.” The word “good” means “faring well, prosperity, and happiness”
The Bible starts with a declaration: “In the beginning, God
created the heaven and the earth” (Gen 1:1), or the lofty and the ground
(ibid). Knowing that God and the angels existed in another unseen realm, a
better translation is the “invisible” and the “visible.” Scripture refers to
the invisible existence as the “unseen” and the visible existence, the “creation.”
The latter exists as “matter” — “the dust of the ground” (Gen 2:7), therefore the
heavens must consist of the “dust” of the lofty.
From a scientific viewpoint, Genesis 1:1 describes particle
physics, namely bosons and fermions — the visible and invisible particle
fields. With that background, scientifically, a visible realm and an invisible realm
really exists. [1] Not
only is the seen reality but the unseen is just as real, and the sum of the two
must balance and together are existence. Yes, Heaven is for real.
Only recently has the unseen been measured and it is proven
to exist. Because it could not be seen is not proof that it does not exist. Science,
theretofore, investigated only material things in the lofty, and ignored the
existence of the non-material, or “anti-matter.” There had been no way to
detect it, but now that has changed.
So loosen up; there is more than meets the eye, and
depending on sight only is dangerous! Mankind are matter, or material beings
whose composition is made up of two components: the elements of the Earth and
the elements of the lofty; the latter those particles which cannot be seen. The
Bible calls them “flesh” and “soul.” Humans are a little lower than angels (Psalm
8:5). Why are humans lower than angels? Because they have weaker flesh. Their
material makes them lesser than immaterial angels. Hence, mankind has a
different “flesh” than angels, and as can be seen from scripture that angels
can appear as men, but men cannot appear as angels.
The Supreme “Angel” is God’s Messenger, Jesus. Jesus easily traveled both the
unseen and seen realms, recounted numerous times in Holy Scripture.
Christians, to be Christians, must confess that there is a
God who was unseen, but in apostolic times was made manifest (Rom 16:26).
Christians must believe that there are two realms and that God always Existed
in the invisible realm. Only for a short time did God expose himself in the
visible realm for a purpose, and that was to put on flesh to die for the evil
(sins) of mankind. With that done, the visible God returned to the heavenly
realm, and lives there with glorified flesh. That type of flesh is what Adam
and Eve had back in the Garden that was so “entirely good” (Gen 1:31), or perfect
in mind, body and spirit; had aplenty, and was joyful.
To test the fidelity of his material creatures, God beforehand
had created immaterial creatures called “angels.” They too had been made “good”
but with the same characteristic as mankind — a free will to choose one of two
choices as they arose.
The angel, Lucifer, was made entirely good as was Adam, but
he chose to be the “authority” when given the choice of himself or God. With
that wrong choice, one-third of the angels rebelled with him. Lucifer’s new
title was “Satan” and the angels became “demons.” They only have the limited power
that God has relegated to them, and essentially that is to create chaos in
order. Thus, order was part of the Creation, and disorder, or chaos, is because
of evil exercised by Satan and his demons. Scientists call disorder “entropy”
and it can be measured. Until the end of time, entropy refers to irreversible
processes.
Satan’s goal was stated; “Thou (Lucifer) hast said in thine
heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God:
I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation” (Isa 14:13). How will that
be done? By undermining God and creating discord in the world. On the other
hand, the Holy Ghost, although always there, appears to mankind when they are
of one accord (Act 2:1). Whenever there is discord and division, that is the
Devil’s planning but the doing of demons. People either do God’s Will or the
will of Satan, thinking they are acting independent of any unseen being. To rationalize
their actions, evil people deny the unseen. Not only are demons and Satan
non-existent to them, but God is as well. With God dead, evil men can do what
they will with impunity.
The “Enlightenment” is credited to Rene’ Descartes and began in 1637. That was a period when the “scientific” became paramount to religion, especially Christianity and witchcraft. Both were considered non-scientific and non-factual. What caused the West to readily accept the “Age of Reason?” The accusation that witches infested Salem and Ipswich in the colony of Massachusetts. “Witches” were those of accused of being specters.
Salem means “peace” but in Salem there was dissension, much
as Jesus warned. For a time, there will only be tribulation, but in the end
jubilation. Jesus said it, “These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye
might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer;
I have overcome the world” (John 16:33). But what has Salem to do with Jesus
and the mob, or any mob for that matter?
The Puritans in Massachusetts were undergoing several
political changes. One crisis was the animosity between two powerful families,
the Porters and the Putnams, which was about land and political power. At the
same time in England the “Glorious Revolution” was in progress and Oliver
Cromwell defeated King Charles, the legitimate authority. With that, the civil
government in Massachusetts was revolving as well. The governance went from theocratic
to autocratic with William Phipps as governor. There was also turmoil between
the religious lieutenant governor, William Stoughton, and “scientific” Mr.
Phipps. Who ruled and what rules of order was used to determine guilt or
innocence was the crisis.
Cotton Matter had flamed the fires by misusing Holy Scripture.
He suggested rules for identifying specters in witches. Much of his treatise
was speculation and of his own doing. Satan used a pious but over-zealous man
to create the crisis that Satan needed to foment chaos.
The accusers were a mob, and their vigilante “Judge Lynch” court
was the Court of Oyer and Terminer. The prosecutor was the new preacher, Samuel
Parris, who had been a landowner in Barbados. He brought a slave, Tituba, to
the colony with him. She was savvy in the rituals of the pagan peoples of the
Caribbean, and perhaps Parris had developed an overly zealous fear of pagan
specters. Then when he got to Massachusetts, Parris got into the ministry, not
by the call of God, but for the need for money. The first thing that occurred
in Massachusetts was Parris’s dissension with the city of Salem over money.
The stage was set for Satan to act. There was a “serious
crisis” on several fronts, and all he had to do was light a fire. He used teen
and preteen girls, first with Parris’s own daughters, to set Salem ablaze and to
spread the fire to Ipswich. Satan even provided a zealous lieutenant governor
for the occasion. William Stoughton became the Deep State’s “governor,” usurping
the power of the real governor, Lord Phipps. He did things his way without regard
to fairness or justice.
Is that scenario not becoming obvious? The mob was forming, and
it was made legitimate. The magistrates in that theocracy became the jury and
lynch mob. Stoughton was, symbolically, the High Priest of Judaism, and the
magistrates, the Sanhedrin. Satan was at work again undermining God and the outcome
of the Salem witch trials was that the Invisible God, Satan, and demons were
made non-entities. The “Enlightenment” had successfully “killed” God just as
Nietzche had written.
Satan used the little children who should have loved God so
much. The mob was led by ecstatic children who needed only to point and cry, “She’s
a witch!” and voila, like magic even Christian women were transformed
into “witches.” Perhaps the children were not afraid of witches but the little “demons”
cried out in fear of God!
Mobs in all times act as if they are children. That time,
Satan was wise enough to use innocent children for his purpose. They cried, “Crucify!”
and in those days, that meant hang by the neck until dead. Psychologists
have defined the children’s mass hysteria as, “The rapid spread of
illness signs and symptoms affecting members of a cohesive group, originating
from a nervous system disturbance involving excitation, loss, or alteration of
function, whereby physical complaints that are exhibited unconsciously have no
corresponding organic aetiology (causation)"
Nearly every conflict in Salem was a catalyst for Satan to
do his dirty deeds. Why would Satan attack the Church so harshly? Because he
feared that Christianity would spread in the Americas, just as he feared when
he had Jesus crucified. What was the outcome of the Salem witch trials? Even Christians
failed to believe In Satan and his demons, and the Puritans in New England perhaps,
even fail to believe in God in this century. The “Congregational” denomination
and its offspring are far from God to this day. Satan was successful in making
New Englanders heretics and he used the mob to do that!
All the leaders in the accusations played a role. William
Phipps was the “Pontius Pilate” figure who did not participate in the judgment,
but for a time, allowed the injustice to proceed. He washed his hands from the judge,
and Stoughton had the greater sin in that he allowed the injustice and made his
own laws as the trial progressed. His judgment was as poor as Roland Freisler’s
in the similar German “witch trials.”
Mobs always have leaders. In Salem, the leader of the mob
was seventeen years-old Elizabeth Hubbard. When she indicated, all the girls
would go berserk as if they were afraid of the demons in those accused of
witchcraft. Suddenly whatever she dictated and exampled, others followed.
Perhaps, it was she who was the chief demoness and the little girls who
were possessed!
That is how evil-doers operate. They accuse others of being
what they are! Compare that to the Russian Hoax. The evil-doers accused Donald
Trump to be under the influence of Russia and Vladimir Putin. The facts point
toward Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, and Barack Obama as the real “witches.” Who
were the hidden government that executed innocent citizens? Reverend Parris,
Lieut-Gov. Stoughton, and Cotton Mather. It was the church and state combined
that was eviler than Gov. Phipps.
Usually, there are two things in using crises: (1) Follow
the money, and (2) profile those who have the power. The young girls were using
the religious authority for power, just as children today use tantrums and
erratic behavior for their demands. The foolish preacher and Stoughton were as
gullible as parents who fail to believe that their “little angels” can be demons.
The Antifa and Black Lives Matter organization are the young
mob that acts much like the young girls in Salem. All they need to do is point
and say, “Racist witch!” and suddenly the entire community and the authorities
side with them. What is happening on the streets of America’s big cities is
what happened in Jerusalem and in Salem, Massachusetts. It is happening all
over again, and the intent today is for Satan to undermine God by attacking
legitimate institutions. Perhaps Hillary Clinton is the true “witch” with the same
demon that imbued Elizabeth Hubbard!
This nation is under attack in much the same way as Salem,
Massachusetts. In the end, only a remnant truly believed and when this crisis
is over, even a smaller remnant will. When will it end? When only a few believe
just as in Sodom and Gomorrah. Then it will be finished!
From 1692 Salem until now, God has been diminished. It will continue
that way until the world believes the lie. The lie? That there is no God, no
demons, and no Hell, only a socialist Utopia.
Jesus will, in the end, be triumphant!
[1]
For a deeper level of explanation, read the author’s book, On the Origin of
Man and the Universe.
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